NADIA NEOPHYTOU
Asanda Mvana, better known as Msaki, remembers trying out for the school choir twice and not quite fitting in. The first time she was in Grade Four. “I remember getting a fright from the size of my voice,” she tells OkayAfrica, over the phone from East London. “I have a low speaking voice and I had a big alto for such a little girl. And my voice coming out of my body gave me a bit of a shock. It was just out of place because everybody was singing like sweet little birds.”
She tried again in Grade 8. But still, nobody could figure out where to place her. “They put me in alto, then they moved me to descant,” she says. “I had a chest voice that was quite soft, and I had a falsetto, and I had this other big voice that would just come
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